JSF dataTable Drag & Drop issue

Question

Hi, I'm developing a project with JSF where I have a dataTable made with 11 columns and unlimited rows. Each cell is populated by StaticText components. When I do a drag & drop (mousedown/mouseup) the StaticText text values between the drag point and the drop point are highlighted in blue. This is confusing to my users. Is there a way to turn-off the auto highlighting of a StaticText component. I don't see any property or style that will do this for me.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Don

Answer 1

Write a Servlet Filter that will set the character encoding to utf-8. Here is the code.
public class UTFEncodingFilter implements Filter {
    public void init(FilterConfig arg0) throws ServletException {
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
            FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    public void destroy() {
}